by Mary Elizabeth O'Toole | Oct 8, 2015 | Design, Sewing
I’ve talked before about my experiments with acrylic paint but today I’m talking about an entirely different thing. Stephen has been wanting to try making something with heavy duty plexiglass sheets and he recently found a project: a sewing machine...
by Mary Elizabeth O'Toole | Oct 5, 2015 | Design
It has been a few weeks since I posted a colour challenge but I have been continuing to play with my acrylic paints. This week, I was focused on finding a spectrum of shades and tones in my scrap stash. Since I was experimenting with adding gray (or grey) to colour,...
by Mary Elizabeth O'Toole | Oct 4, 2015 | Art Quilts, Design
I am a writer, a list maker, a planner. I am most definitely NOT a person who can draw much of anything that would be recognizable without a label. Not entirely true, I guess because I can manage things like fruit or line drawings of fish or simplified animals....
by Mary Elizabeth O'Toole | Sep 14, 2015 | Design, Inspiration, Woodworking
Today’s post is written by Stephen Parsons. In the August edition of Fine Woodworking Christian Becksvoort presented an article on making a traditional Shaker laptop writing desk. His version uses dovetail joinery and features a small drawer at the side of the...
by Mary Elizabeth O'Toole | Jul 25, 2015 | Design, Woodworking
Today’s post is written by Stephen Parsons. If you have ever developed your own design for an artisan craft project, you have probably started out with a simple pencil/pen and paper concept drawing. You might further develop the design using ruled or graph paper...
by Mary Elizabeth O'Toole | Jul 20, 2015 | Design, Quilting
As we have already seen, there is not one colour wheel but a variety for different uses. There is no set number of sections or even foundation colours. What colour wheels – also known as colour circles – have in common is that they are used to show...
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